Patent Museum, South Kensington.—This national collection is lodged in a building wholly unworthy of the purpose; it is small, badly lighted, and overcrowded. There are, however, few institutions more worthy of a visit. There, crowded together, are mechanical inventions of all kinds, some exhibited in model, some of full size. There are locomotive and marine engines, pumps, bridges, docks, and machinery of all sorts.

[Unfortunately the Patent Museum is no more but it’s contents are now housed in the Science Museum, London. R.D.]